Melissa Dalley

director Goodbye Sirena; writer/director/producer Zebras

Melissa Dalley is an Austin-based filmmaker who has worked on reality shows, tiny indie features, big-budget productions and everything in between. She is the director of Austin Film Festival 2018 selection Goodbye Sirena.She also produced the award-winning film Loves Her Gun (SXSW 2013) and The Big Spoon (AFF 2016), the first film to be made under her SnowLion Pictures banner. SnowLion is committed to making work by and about women, people of color, and people with disabilities -The means matter, as do the stories we tell. Currently Melissa is in development on a feature film Shorthand (AFF Second Rounder 2016) and in production on Zebras, a painfully funny digital series she wrote and directed inspired by her family's real-life struggles with a mysterious chronic illness.